fault是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 缺点, 毛病, 过错, (地质) 断层，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have carefully avoided every fault with which common writers of travels are often too justly charged.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes,' said Mr. Gradgrind, 'yes, I believe you have tried hard; I have observed you, and I can find no fault in that respect.'
-- I have one great fault to find with Tom, however, which I cannot forgive, and for which I take him heavily to account.'
-- Louisa turned her eyes to his face, and asked him what fault was that?
-- They were at fault too, and off the scent.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had undertaken to serve a certain man at so much per week, and no matter what evils befell his employer or himself, he never found fault or grumbled, so long as his wages were duly paid.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since, of course, it's not your own fault you are alive.
-- Then at the inquiry, on the masters' side they said Ted had been fright-ened, and trying to run away, and not obeying orders, so it was like his fault really.
-- It was not woman's fault, nor even love's fault, nor the fault of sex.
-- The fault lay there, out there, in those evil elec-tric lights and diabolical rattlings of engines.
-- 'God, no!I let my wife get to what she was: my fault a good deal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could tell you who suffered, but he couldn't tell you whose fault it was.
-- As Flora's good nature shone in the case, Clennam had no fault to find with the old lady for eliciting it, now that he was relieved from the terrors of her presence; and they took a glass or two of wine in peace.
-- 'You are glad she turns out well,' said Pancks, 'but it wouldn't have been your fault if she had turned out ill.
-- The other lady, she's Mr Casby's daughter; and if Mr Casby an't well off, none better, it an't through any fault of Pancks.
-- 'Well, well!The fault is not yours.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The knowledge that her mother had a fault like hers, and tried to mend it, made her own easier to bear and strengthened her resolution to cure it, though forty years seemed rather a long time to watch and pray to a girl of fifteen.
-- 'I shall, because it's my fault she is sick.
-- But inside, it was altogether charming, and the happy bride saw no fault from garret to cellar.
-- I've done what I undertook, and it's not my fault that it failed.
-- I wish Fred was dark, for I don't fancy light men, however, the Vaughns are very rich and come of an excel-lent family, so I won't find fault with their yellow hair, as my own is yellower.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That is not his fault though.
-- Serious fault might be found with the anatomical details of this whale, but let that pass; since, for the life of me, I could not draw so good a one.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, he is rather small,' replied Mr. Bumble: looking at Oliver as if it were his fault that he was no bigger; 'he is small.
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